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Their Dunkirk

... Their Dunkirk Next week 200 veterans of Dunkirk will sail for the beaches on which they fought brilliant rearguard action ten years ago. But they will only see the sand dunes from afar because the British Customs will not permit them to land. The men ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Dur'ng World War 11. he was a stafl-sereeant in the Royal Corns of Transport and was involved in both the retreat from Dunkirk and the Normandy landings. A former pupil of Robert Gordon’s College, he was widower with one son an ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

Dunkirk—the

... Since then, so much has been written about Dunkirk that one is apt to look with jaundiced eye on any new book on the subject. would be a pity if this were happen Richard Collier’s Tlia Sands of Dunkirk,” • for here is Intensely exciting book about ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1961
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk Veterans eterans branch meeting will Legion rooms at Peterhead Thursday, at 7.30 p.m: — transport leaves , Aberdeen, at 6.30 p.m: There, will be-no meeting in July..A coffee will be Saturday, September 19. Full details later. ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

At Dunkirk

... At Dunkirk Then she volunteered for service abroad, cnd was sent to France to become a survivor of the Dunkirk withdrawal. She has been serving in the Middle East for two and a half years, and volunteered for this service. Mrs Clarke, with pride, told ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

At Dunkirk

... At Dunkirk MI D. A Davidson, advocate. said accused was thirty years of age and was a miner. He was a Territoria: and was called up before the war. He had been through Dunkirk. Accused had told him that' he had always gone home to see his wife and children ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“Dunkirk”

... “Dunkirk” GORDON HIGHLANDERS will be seen in the film Dunkirk, which comes to Aberdeen, next week. For three days, the Ist Battalion The Gordon Highlanders, stationed at Dorer, became actors to take part In beach scenes for the him Among them were two ...

Published: Thursday 08 May 1958
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk A stickler for discipline, he' planned and controlled the Dunkirk evacuation and the landings in North Africa and Sicily. Now at the age of sixty he_ will plan the opposite operation. His home is at Coldstream, Berwickshire. Sir Trafford Leig ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk veteran ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1980
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk 0 e var Cmdr, Brenot e evacuation from ater served with ench Navy in Algerian waters. f the war he was t cer of a French ) which began its Boi is | r Bergen, Norway. scientifie staff will of deep-sea cur- WALL FALLS ON tWO WORKMEN cust of wind ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1955
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK _ Tuesday and Wednesday THE BROTHERS RICO— Richard Conte plays an ex-racketeer trying to live a normal decent life which is rudely interrupted when he has to go on the run with his two brothers. GHOST OF THE CHINA SEA is the e xciting story of ...

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK A member of tho 297 (Inverness) Battery. Territorial Army, he was transferred Royal Signals before tho war. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and served in London during the blitz. Ho was later posted to Algiers and served in North Africa for three ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 18 | Tags: none